A/HRC/19/2
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter and the norms and principles
governing peaceful relations among States,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated character of
all human rights and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to development as a universal and
inalienable right and an integral part of all human rights,
Expressing its concern at the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on
human rights, development, international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,
Recognizing that unilateral coercive measures in the form of economic sanctions can
have far-reaching implications for the human rights of the general population of targeted
States, disproportionately affecting the poor and the most vulnerable classes,
Recognizing also that long-term unilateral coercive measures may result in social
problems and raise humanitarian concerns in the States targeted,
Recalling the final document of the fifteenth summit of the Heads of State and
Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in July 2009,
in which the States members of the Movement decided to oppose unilateralism and
unilaterally-imposed measures by certain States, which can lead to the erosion and violation
of the Charter and international law, the use and threat of use of force and pressure and
coercive measures as a means to achieving their national policy objectives, and to support,
in accordance with international law, the claim of affected States, including targeted States,
to compensation for damage incurred as a consequence of the implementation of
extraterritorial or unilateral coercive measures or laws,
Recalling also that the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14
to 25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral measure not in
accordance with international law and the Charter and that created obstacles to trade
relations among States and impeded the full realization of all human rights, and that also
severely threatened the freedom of trade,
Deeply concerned that, despite the resolutions adopted on this issue by the General
Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights and at United
Nations conferences held in the 1990s and at their five-year reviews, and contrary to norms
of international law and the Charter, unilateral coercive measures continue to be
promulgated, implemented and enforced by, inter alia, resorting to war and militarism, with
all their negative implications for the social-humanitarian activities and economic and
social development of developing countries, including their extraterritorial effects, thereby
creating additional obstacles to the full enjoyment of all human rights by peoples and
individuals under the jurisdiction of other States,
Reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are a major obstacle to the
implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling article 1, paragraph 2, common to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
which provides that, inter alia, in no case may a people be deprived of its own means of
subsistence,
1.
Calls upon all States to stop adopting or implementing unilateral coercive
measures not in accordance with international law, international humanitarian law, the
Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations
among States, in particular those of a coercive nature with extraterritorial effects, which
create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full realization of the
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